Commonwealth Bay
Commonwealth Bay is an open bay about 48 km wide at the entrance between Point Alden and Cape Gray in Antarctica. It was discovered in 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who established the main base of the expedition at Cape Denison at the head of the bay.- Type: Bay
- Description: bay
- Also known as: “Bahia de la Commonwealth”, “Baia Commonwealth”, and “Samveldebukta”
Commonwealth Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-66.972° or 66° 58′ 19″ south
Longitude
142.57301° or 142° 34′ 23″ east
Open location code
3R542HHF+66
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Commonwealth Bay” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Комонуелт (залив)”
- Bulgarian: “Комонуелт”
- Catalan: “Badia de la Commonwealth”
- Chinese: “英聯邦灣”
- Dutch: “Commonwealth Bay”
- French: “baie du Commonwealth”
- French: “Baie du Commonwealth”
- German: “Commonwealth-Bucht”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ קומונוולת‘”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ קומונוולת’”
- Italian: “baia del Commonwealth”
- Italian: “Baia del Commonwealth”
- Japanese: “コモンウェルス湾”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samveldebukten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Commonwealth Bay”
- Norwegian: “Samveldebukten”
- Polish: “Zatoka Commonwealthu”
- Portuguese: “Baía da Commonwealth”
- Romanian: “Golful Commonwealth”
- Russian: “Коммонуэлт”
- Spanish: “Bahía de la Commonwealth”
- Swedish: “Commonwealth Bay”
- Venetian: “Baja de la Commonwealth”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cape Denison and Mawson’s Huts.
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